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and much of Central Europe, Asia Minor, and extreme west o£ Asia 

 through to Persia. Seebohm obtained it on the Yenesei, and the three birds 

 obtained by Dr. Moore and my men in Dibrugarh must have been of this 

 species. 



In vol. xvii. of the ' Bombay Journal,' when writing of this species 

 (p. 537), I most unfortunately twice wrote middendorji, instead of neglectuSy 

 the former of these two, of course, not being a pink-billed species. In 

 consequence of the discussion on Bean-Greese which arose in the Journal, 

 I hunted up my old notes on this subject, and was lucky enough to find 

 letters from Messrs. Moore and Mundy and also my own notes. These, 1 

 think, quite definitely fix the identification of the geese obtained. 



Sushkin's Goose breeds in Novaya Zemlya, and almost certainly in 

 Kolguev, perhaps also in the Surgai district near Urkach. 



